The R train: all 45 stations from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Bay Ridge-95th Street

The R starts at Forest Hills-71st Avenue in Queens and runs on the local tracks of the Queens Boulevard Line, shared with the M. It goes through the 60th Street tunnel onto the local tracks of the BMT Broadway Line, crosses to Brooklyn through the Montague Street tunnel and runs down the Fourth Avenue Line local to Bay Ridge-95th Street. In service since 1920, it is the only line that stops at every station on both the Broadway and the Fourth Avenue Lines.

The stations

Starting at Forest Hills-71st Avenue, the R runs through 67th Avenue, 63rd Drive-Rego Park, Woodhaven Boulevard, Grand Avenue-Newtown, Elmhurst Avenue, Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue, 65th Street, Northern Boulevard, 46th Street, Steinway Street, 36th Street, Queens Plaza, 59th Street, 5th Avenue-59th Street, 57th Street-7th Avenue, 49th Street, Times Square-42nd Street, 34th Street-Herald Square, 28th Street, 23rd Street, 14th Street-Union Square and 8th Street-New York University.

The rest of the route is Prince Street, Canal Street, City Hall, Cortlandt Street, Rector Street, Whitehall Street-South Ferry, Court Street, Jay Street-MetroTech, DeKalb Avenue, Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, Union Street, 9th Street, Prospect Avenue, 25th Street, 36th Street, 45th Street, 53rd Street, 59th Street, Bay Ridge Avenue, 77th Street, 86th Street and Bay Ridge-95th Street.

Changing trains, and typing it

Of the 45 stations, 34 are shared with other lines in the game. The biggest are Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q), Times Square-42nd Street (1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, W), 34th Street-Herald Square (B, D, F, M, N, Q, W), 14th Street-Union Square (4, 5, 6, N, Q, L, W), 59th Street (4, 5, 6, N, W) and Forest Hills-71st Avenue (E, F, M). The whole line takes 728 keystrokes, about 16.2 per station. Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue is the longest at 32, then Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center at 31, and City Hall is the shortest at 9. Ride the R.